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May 12, 2018

Stacking The Shelves #99/Sunday Post #31

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!


Guys! I'm so excited! I've been looking for these books for a while now and finally found copies at the used bookstore!!! And both in hardcover too! I'm so so excited to finally have these! 

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February 03, 2018

Stacking The Shelves [#85]/Sunday Post [#17]

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!


Thank you Random House and Netgalley!


Bookish things first. Any of you like Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series? It was announced this week that the series will continue with 4 new books taking place about 10 years (I think) after the events of the initial books! I'm super excited! The Uglies series has been one of my favorite series since I started reading, so I'm very excited for the new books!!! :D :D

So as a few of you may have noticed, I was MIA the past week and a half. Its been hectic. If you'll remember, we were looking for a new apartment. Well, all that was a bust. We still couldn't find anything we really liked in Tucson. We even expanded our search to James hometown 2 hours away in Sierra Vista and we couldn't find anything to settle on there either. And James couldn't find any way to transfer his job there as well. So guess what. We ended up renewing our lease where we are. Even though its a little pricey, overall, it was still a better option living wise than anything we looked at. So instead James is looking at transferring to a different position at his job with more hours to compensate and I'm looking into finding a decent job to help him with the bills. After all the searching and not being satisfied we had a long talk and decided staying here was our best option. So we ended up not moving! YAY! I have to say I'm relieved. I think this whole being flexible with the jobs is a better compromise than moving after all the places we looked at. Lets just say its worth the price of our apartment to a. stay on the safer side of town and b. not have to live in an apartment that is smaller and looked much more poorly made. 

In some other news. I'm so freaking proud of James! He got a letter in the mail this week from his college telling him he made Honor Roll for his 3.5 GPA last semester!!! He hasn't been an honor student since like 5th grade. I'm so so proud of him!!! :D I'm hoping we can repeat his success this semester! 

Also, I've decided to seriously crack down on losing weight. I won't get into super details. But long story short, my birth control implant made me gain 20-30 pounds that with it in, I can't get off no matter what I try. So the birth control implant is coming out this month and I'm hoping eating healthy and exercising will actually work without the extra hormones raging through my body screwing with it. I'm actually really excited about this. Not just the losing weight but the extra hormones being gone. Lets just say the arm implant was not good to me and I'm happy for it to be gone!! 

Overall, I really think things are starting to look up this year now! :D

Remember, there's still lots of time to sign up for the 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge! The February Link-Up will go up on Monday!


2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge February Link-Up
Review of Warcross by Marie Lu
Review of Shatter by Aprilynne Pike

Also, can I just ask that if you like my blog and regularly visit, that you like the blogs Facebook page. I tend to share a little bit more to the Facebook page than actually hits the blog, including random bookish news, quotes, cover reveals, new or continuations of series, etc. And if I'm missing from the blog for a few days, usually I'm still sharing on there at least. So you get to see extra stuff that might be too small for a blog post! 

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March 18, 2014

Tucson Festival of Books 2014

So this past weekend was the 2014 Tucson Festival of Books! I went and had an absolutely blast! I got to meet some really amazing authors and hear some really awesome panels!

The Authors I Met!
Page Morgan (author of The Beautiful and The Cursed) and me! 
She was so nice and so excited to take pictures with people! It was awesome! :)

Ilsa J. Bick (author of Ashes) and me!
She is awesome! She was so enthusiastic about taking pictures with her fans! I also got to hear her talk in a panel on horror in children and teen books! Fantastic panel! 

Me and Aprilynne Pike (author of the Wings series)
She is so nice! I very much enjoyed hearing her talk about books and writing! I was very excited when I found out she was going to TFOB!

Suzanne Young (author of The Program) and me!
I was very excited to find out she was going to be at TFOB as well! She signs all the time at a book store in Phoenix but with college I don't have the time to take the 2 hour drive up there during the week. So I was very excited to finally get to meet her and get a book signed by her!!!!! :D She is so nice!

Panels!
Aprilynne Pike & Page Morgan
Page read a little bit out of The Beautiful and The Cursed and Aprilynne read a bit from her upcoming novel Sleep No More! They both then answered questions ranging from why they choose to write about what they write about, getting an agent, getting published, editing etc. It was really informative!

From left to right: Moderator, Ilsa J. Bick, R.L. Stine, Rich Wallace & Xavier Garza
The panel entitled Thrills and Chills: Spine-Tingling Tales talked about horror and scary type stories in children and teen books. Despite the fact that the panel was about scary and horror stories, it was actually really upbeat and the author got many laughs out of the audience with their stories!

Books!
My signed copy of A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young!

My signed copy of Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick!

Me!
Last but not least I have to thank my absolutely amazing boyfriend James for coming with me to the festival! He sat through all the panels with me and even enjoyed listening to them. He also took almost all the pics of me with authors! :)

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May 19, 2013

Stacking The Shelves [#54]

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January 21, 2012

In My Mailbox [#24]

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share new books we bought, received, won etc.

Bought:

 Bought with Trade Credit at local Indie Bookstore:

 Gift From My Mom:
This just came in the mail a few hours ago.

Library Haul:

From Putnam:

For My Kindle:

Hey guys. I just got a new phone yesterday and so the pics I took I took on my new phone. Tell me how they look ok? I think they look more clear than the ones I took with my old phone. 

What's in your mailbox?
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